KJ3 Literal Translation
Hosea 9
The distress and captivity of Israel for their sins and idolatry.
1O Israel, do not rejoice for joy, like the peoples. For you have fornicated away from your God. You have loved hire on all threshing-floors of grain.
2The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
3They shall not live in the land of Jehovah, but Ephraim shall turn back to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
4They shall not offer wine to Jehovah, and not shall be pleasing to Him. Their sacrifices shall be like the bread of sorrows to them; all who eat it shall be defiled, for their bread is for their person; it shall not come into the house of Jehovah.
5What will you do in the day of meeting, and in the day of the feast of Jehovah?
6For, behold, they have gone from destruction; Egypt shall gather them; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess the desirable things of their silver; thorns shall be in their tents.
7The days of her calling to account have come; Israel shall know the days of her retribution. The prophet is a fool, the man of spirit is mad, for great is your iniquity and your hatred much.
8Ephraim is a watchman with my God. The prophet is a snare of a fowler on all his ways; hatred is in the house of his God.
9They have deeply corrupted, as in days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity; He will call their sins to account.
10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruit in the fig tree at its beginning. They came to Baal-peor and separated to shame. And they became detestable things like that which they loved.
11As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird; and from birth from the womb, and from conception.
12Though they multiply their sons, yet I will make them childless, without a man. Yea, woe also to them when I turn away from them!
13As when I looked toward Tyre, Ephraim was planted in a meadow. But Ephraim shall bring forth his sons to the slayer.
14O Jehovah, give to them; what will you give ? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
15All their evil is in Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them out of My house for the evil of their doings, I will not add to love them; all their rulers are revolters.
16Ephraim is stricken; their root is dried up; they shall bear no fruit. Yea, though they bear, yet I will kill the delight of their womb.
17My God shall reject them because they did not listen to Him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
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